14/3/2017 | Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University

Project Background

  • Increasingly depending on multidisciplinary research

  • Biology, Ecology, Oceanography, Economy, etc!

  • Lack of data or lack of data availability?

  • No matter which, the result can block progress

  • A meta-database fosters collaboration and eases the process of informing best policies relevant to any community or region

Objectives

  1. Design a framework for the meta-database of marine ecosystems and marine-related research of Mexico
  2. Identify available data sources and incorporate into developed meta-database framework
  3. Identify the major trends in marine data availability in Mexico
  4. Identify information and research gaps that should be addressed in the future
  5. Develop protocols for public sharing of the meta-database and inclusion of new information in the future

Metadata Structure

Shiny applications not supported in static R Markdown documents

Current Status of the Metadata

  • Since November we have colected: 30036 Records, from 26 repositories, resulting in 143468 data points

Preliminar Results for the Gulf of Mexico

The Metadata has 29665 Records, from 10 repositories, resulting in 16053 data points

Institutions Collaborating

Preliminar Results for the Gulf of Mexico (cont.)

Direct Collaboration

The more people involved, the better we can reflect the state of marine research in Mexico!

  • Share: Remember that we are looking for data information and not the data itself!
  • Inform We are looking for any source of information relevant to marine research in Mexico.
  • Communicate A large multidisciplinary group of collaborators will certainly contribute to a successful project

Thank you !

Juliano Palacios-Abrantes | j.palacios@oceans.ubc.ca

  • Collaborators: Arreguín-Sánchez F, Cheung W. William, Cisneros-Mata Miguel A, Cisneros-Montemayor Andres, Rodriguez Laura

Questions?